Democratic values + Talent + Technology.
I explain this based on Indian Government. Since, that's what i know for now. How we can elect the prime minister, we will come later. But for now, there is a prime minister. He chooses the Union Ministers and Chief Ministers. Chief Minister will choose the State Government Ministers. And those ministers will choose MLAs and allot constituencies for them. These MLAs will choose and allot constituencies for Councellors. There will be no MPs, No Rajya sabha or Lok sabha. Parliament will be conducted department-wise. During budget, Finance Minister will call all CMs and state FMs, along with state and centre beaurocrats to discuss union Government budget. So forth for all ministries.
Democratic values
So, first democratic values. Every 6 months, there will be election. 6 months for all ranks of state ministers, MLAs and below. 2 years central ministers, CMs and PMs. Not to choose any politician, but to assess his performance.To decide whether he can continue or not. If people choose that he is not performing, he will be fired. This will overcome the main problem in democracy. People don't have knowledge, whom to elect and their inability to oust him for another 5 years. All politicians will undergo this process. Voting will not be ballot. Online voting. Every citizen should register for voting through their Aadhar Card. MLAs and Councellors will be voted by their constituency members. Others can be voted by anyone. If a citizen doesn't have knowledge about any politician, don't vote either for or against him. We recommend only informed voters to participate. To survive, politicians should get more than 50% of votes casted for him. If a politician fails, he will be replaced by another politician by method already told.
Talent
Next, Talent. If a person wants to take part in government, he should have done atleast bachelor's degree in the field, he is applying for. Phd is most welcome. Like Finance Minister should have done MBA in finance, or commerce. Even Railway minister should have done degree in Railways. If there is no specialization available right now for any field, Government itself will start allowing universities to start such degree programs. High scores and leadership qualities should be considered by the respective Politicians, while choosing ministers and other members. And the politicians should give a clear reason, why they chose such a person.
Technology
Next, the most important game changing part. Technology. I will recommend this be given to Microsoft. I will call this Microsoft Administration Application. So, this will bring the whole administration of a country, under one roof. Revenue to Microsoft will come through Advertisements, which can be accurately targeted. There are few things, which should be avoided here, which may compromise India's security like Armed Forces and to some extent police force as well. Each ministry will have a different part in the Administration App. Each basically will do these things.
1. Propoganda
2. Complaints and Rectification
3. Problems, Solutions and Ideas
4. Budget
5. Rank a politician
6. Governance College
7. Policy discussion forum
Propoganda
This is a way by which government reaches to each and every state, constituency, town and village. If government decides to introduce a welfare scheme, it will reach every citizen, what government is offering them. Like, government wants to open a university in their town, wants to bring awareness regarding a scheme like suganya samridhi scheme. Each and every program designed by government, will accurately calculate, who is eligible, who should be informed, about the scheme.
Complaints and Rectification
This will be a part, everyone will love. Suppose a citizen finds that there is no proper sanitation in his area or a school in his area is not functioning properly or there is any proof of corruption, He can simply take a video of it, locate using map, if necessary, and upload it in the App. Every complaint should have at least five persons endorsing it, with each of them having a different address as per Aadhar ID. It is not true that there is only one vote per house. It is one vote per house per issue. Some house may have elders. They will vote for their issues. Some will have youngsters ( above age 18 ), they will have their own issues. This will tell accurately from anywhere, what is happening even in a small town or village. If a politician receives a complaint in his area, he has to rectify it, or give a proper reason for not rectifying, like unavailability of funds. These complaints will be give raise to points. Red points for Complaints, Green points for Rectification, Blue points for Reason without rectification, Yellow points for dispute, Black for inaction. R= G+B+Y+Bl. More Green points or less Red points means a good politician. Green points divided by Red points will be a good measure of that politician's performance, based on quantity. Quality of a Politician's performance can be calculated by taking into account the number of endorsements each complaint has received, then calculating Green / Red. Calculations will be done by Microsoft software. Weight for every complaint = Number of complaints / Number of individual houses in that Constituency. This number of houses in that Constituency increases as per the position of the politician holds. Councillor will have less households compared to MLA. Weightage is anyway going to be very less for complaints made for fun and police may take disciplinary action against them. MLA responsible for all his councillors performance. His score is aggregate score of his councillors + any common additional issues he has solved in his constituency. We can add a layer between councillor and MLA if necessary. Ministers are not responsible for any councillor or MLA. His score is purely based on his performance in his ministry. Every complaint should mention, whether it is Councillor's issue, MLA's issue, Minister's issue or any combination of them. If you have any doubt, whose problem it is, you can contact Councillors and ask them or maybe a toll free helpline, if possible. Colorts will be decided by the 5 or more persons who lodged the complaint. Majority points will decide the color. Like if 5 persons complained and 3 vote as green, it is green. But if there is no majority like 2 votes for green, 2 votes for red and 1 vote for blue. It will goto dispute Yellow points. Also, if a politician says, he has cleared the problem, but those who made the complaint, gave red points, it will goto dispute Yellow points. Yellow points is of no use to the politician. If those who made complaint, do it again and again on a politician, because of personal vengeance, more dispute Yellow points will come and those who made complaint will not be allowed to complaint again. We can fix that to 10 Yellow points per Aadhar ID, more than that will be barred to complaint for 6 months.
For making a complaint you don't need a Smartphone. After making a complaint in someone's Smartphone, others can endorse through OTP received on feature phones. Only that, that phone number should match their Aadhar ID's Phone number. More the number of endorsements, more is of importance to the politician. Unavailability of funds is no excuse. If there is a sanitation problem, Canvas volunteers and NGOs to come and clean it. If a school doesn't have enough resources, find a corporate to sponsor for the school and upgrade it's classroom and infrastructure. Innovation, problem solving is not just for software developers. It applies to everyone who wants to serve as politicians. Then only you will get good color points and performance rank. Crime complaints can't be lodged like murder, rape or kidnapping. These cases are sensitive and should be handled only by police. But corruption even by police can be recorded and uploaded. Complaints section can do anonymous posting, no other field will allow anonymous posting. Normally, Rectification color points will be given by the persons who posted the complaint. Anonymous complaints will most probably some kind of high profile corruption. Rectification color points for anonymous complaints will be given by police department. Even if it's about police, it will go to higher authority. Police will track anonymous complaint, before allowing it on Administration App. Nobody goes anonymous to complain about sanitation. Sometimes it is safe to go non anonymous for political complaints, because after i declare that i made that complaint and anything happens to me, who is responsible?.
Problems, Solutions and Ideas
For people who are smart, and want to contribute to the society, but couldn't do so earlier. This is for you. Government will post problems they are facing and ask for solutions from talented people in the society. This will not be like a Social media post, where no one cares about comments. There will be interaction with people giving solutions. Best solutions will be given awards by PMs and CMs and recognised in the Administration App. As already mentioned, no anonymous posts will be allowed to avoid junk.
Budget
This is a game changer, to stop corruption and misuse of government money. Budget allocated for every department and every single project will be clearly posted for public to know. Also, who got Government Contracts for what amount their project got approved, will also be out to public. So, if Government allocates 2 lakhs for a park near you and there is no park, everyone can easily know, who swallowed it. It will also clearly tell you what amount is allocated to different departments, in turn telling you government priorities, Government's income and their tax allotment.
Rank a politician
Based on the performance and points they scored, the progress they showed in their constituencies and departments, citizens can rank a politician from 1 to 10, so that he knows how he performed, why certain area people has given him low marks, where to improve, where his strengths are and so on. Citizen should rank only ministers, whose work they know. Like health workers, Medical students, people who goto government hospitals and those who are benefitted by government health insurances or have a good knowledge about it should vote for a health minister. If you know nothing about health minister's policies, don't vote for or against him. There will also be factors like whether a minister got approval from public on a certain policy. How many welfare schemes, he has introduced and how many were successful, which will be calculated by Microsoft formulas, and will add to their scores, along with people's score. Every 5 years, low ranked politicians will be removed and high ranked politicians will be promoted to higher positions and new politicians recruited, as per the recommendations of Chief Minister. It will be done every 5 years because those low ranked politicians did pass people's mandate, every 6 months. Just that they are not talented enough to beat others. As years pass, naturally highly capable politicians will come up and they will select such highly capable politicians.
Governance College
Every state need to have its governance college, which will give Master's Degree, on all ministries, each course will have 2 or 3 years time duration. Participants should have already done atleast a bachelor's degree in their respective fields, in any university. Entrance test will shortlist the candidates, after which they will be interviewed. Voluntary social work done, making any remarkable achievement, giving new ideas regarding governance should be considered in interviews. This college will help political leaders to interview and select their ministers and all other politicians.
Policy discussion forum
Every new policy after conceived and finalised by politicians and beaurocrats will go to public policy discussion forum, where citizens of the country, from experts to ordinary knowledgable citizens enter a healthy discussion. It is important for politicians and beaurocrats to wade off popular sentiments if any, by explaining clearly the merits of a policy. Participants may find holes in the policy, which will help government to rectify it, before applying it.
No matter what, a Prime Minister can't stay in power for more than 10 years. If he reaches the last 6 months, he has to choose a few possible future PMs and train them, evaluate them and then announce him as next PM. That PM should get approval from majority of CMs. No personal favours allowed.
